J Abrams
Biographic Data
| ID | 30544 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Abrams |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Abrams |
| SIGNATURE | ABRAMS J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1937-4606 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 383 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
“Paying not to work?” examining the validity of forest sector narratives on Covid-19 pandemic relief and labor impacts
The COVID-19 pandemic caused major disruptions in labor markets across the United States. This study examines forest-sector stakeholders’ narratives around pandemic assistance programs and their perceived labor impacts, drawing on 35 semi-structured interviews with mill representatives, loggers, landowners, and foresters in Georgia. We identified narratives around stimulus payments, expanded unemployment insurance, and the Paycheck Protection Pro…
Industrial to investment: Pathways and outcomes of timberland financialization in the United States
Timberland ownership in the United States underwent a major transformation in the late 20th century, driven by changing tax policies, availability of timber raw materials, and generally accepted accounting principles. These shifts played an important role in the financialization of timberlands, reshaping how timberlands are owned and managed. Formerly dominant vertically integrated forest products companies (VIFPCs) not only owned the wood-proces…
Are prevailing policy tools effective in conserving ecosystem services under individual private tenure? Challenges and policy gaps in a rapidly urbanizing region
Concerns over high taxes can negatively impact FFOs’ decisions to participate in existing conservation policies. • Enrollment in tax incentive and cost-share policies was not associated with lower expectations of residential development. • FFOs prefer less complicated and short-term policies such as tax incentive programs over long-term complicated policies. • FFOs expressed significant interest in conservation programs with payments for ES. Fore…
A Delphi Assessment of Digital Technology Needs in the Eastern US Forest Sector
Expanding protected areas: A case for repairing intergenerational social capital rather than taking the path of least resistance
With many international entities pushing for the protection of 30% of terrestrial and marine habitat by 2030 through the 30x30 global initiative, the expansion of protected areas (PA) will inevitably interface with populations carrying lived experiences of PA management as well as their community’s collective memory of how the promises and outcomes of previous PA establishments materialized. One community recently experiencing a government’s desi…
From program to classroom: A photo elicitation study to understand educators’ experiences implementing garden-based learning following professional development
Garden-based learning, a key component of Farm to School (FTS), continues to grow in popularity as a tool for engaging students in hands-on learning. Recent literature calls for professional development to help educators overcome barriers—including a lack of horticulture skills, curricular connections, and time—that often hinder program success and sustainability. This study sought to understand the role of professional development and its abilit…
Informal Land Tenure and Livelihood Resilience in the Chaco Salteño, Argentina
Improving wildfire management outcomes: Shifting the paradigm of wildfire from simple to complex risk
Numerous wildfire management agencies and institutions rely primarily on simple risk approaches to wildfire that focus on technical risk assessments that do not reflect the complexity of contemporary wildfire risk. This review paper argues that such insufficiently complex conceptualizations of risk, which do not account for the social and ecological diversity of fire-prone areas, are key contributors to the continued wildfire dilemma. We discuss …
Do rural youth want to stay rural? Influences on residential aspirations of youth in forest-located communities
Economic transitions have a wide variety of impacts on rural forest-located communities. Uncertain employment prospects and a lack of local higher education institutions may increase out-migration, while individual connections to the local natural environment and community itself may bind youth to their community of origin. We analyzed over 2,000 survey responses from middle and high school youth from traditionally forest-dependent communities in…
Desarrollo sustentable y regenerativo de los paisajes socioecológicos de montaña: Montología del Chimborazo como referente insigne del cambio global
Analizamos el predicamento del desarrollo sustentable y regenerativo enmarcado en la experiencia globalizante del cambio global, con la gran aceleración de las últimas décadas. Con el fin de plantear opciones prácticas de adaptación al cambio climático y de incrementar la resiliencia, se presenta el caso del Chimborazo como referente global para incorporar la transdisciplinariedad de la montología, presentada como la ciencia convergente de las mo…
Working on institutions while planning for forest resilience: A case study of public land management in the United States
How do managers reconcile new priorities for responding to ecological change with traditional decision-making processes? We address this question with a focus on the US Forest Service, which is transitioning to managing for resilience, while operating under a mix of both new and decades-old policies. We conducted qualitative case study research on the Kaibab National Forest in Arizona, USA, via interviews and document analysis. In this context, m…
Disturbance shapes the US forest governance frontier: A review and conceptual framework for understanding governance change
Operationalizing Resilience on U.S. National Forestlands: A Quantitative Analysis of Environmental Impact Statements
Social-ecological resilience has been embraced by the United States Forest Service (USFS) as an organizing principle for forest planning and management; however, the extent and depth of its operationalization remain unclear. We conducted a quantitative content analysis of environmental impact statements, evaluating the presence or absence of various elements that indicate “resilience thinking” and “resilience speaking” and analyzing the associati…
Does Information and Deliberation Affect Ecosystem Service Judgments? Evidence from Tree Plantation Expansion in Argentina
Non-native tree plantations have become a significant presence on the landscape of northeastern Argentina. This study investigated perceptions of eucalyptus plantations in two Argentine communities: Ubajay, a community with significant historical plantation presence and forestry industry employment, and La Criolla, a community transitioning to a greater focus on plantation forestry. The purpose of this study was to determine effects of providing …
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: Cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Selfa, T., V. Marini, and J. B. Abrams. 2021. Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Ecology and Society 26(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12870-260444
Individuals’ intentions to engage in last chance tourism: Applying the value-belief-norm model
For tourism to be entirely sustainable, one cannot travel. This is impossible. This paradox is particularly evident within last chance tourism (LCT), where tourists, seeking experiences with vanishing animals and land/seascapes, can accelerate the decline of those very attractions. Though recent studies hint that those with the highest intentions to visit LCT destinations are also some of the most concerned with climate change, no study has asses…
Adaptive governance in a complex social-ecological context: Emergent responses to a native forest insect outbreak
Local-level emergence of network governance within the U.S. Forest Service: A case study of mountain pine beetle outbreak from Colorado, USA
A land systems science approach to assessing forest governance and characterizing the emergence of social forestry in the Western Cascades of Oregon
National forests in the United States are undergoing a spatially and temporally uneven governance transition in response to Congressional policies, agency mandates, and social and economic pressures, with many moving from a wholly state-led ‘dominant federal’ model to a more collaborative networked governance model which we refer to as ‘social forestry’. While the broad contours of this transition have been observed and studied previously, there …
The American West as a social-ecological region: Drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems
The American West exists in the popular imagination as a distinct region, and policies and politics often suggest that both the challenges and the opportunities for land management and human well-being across the region are relatively homogeneous. In this paper, we argue that there are key characteristics that define the West as a social-ecological region, and also that there are myriad social-ecological systems (SESs) within the region that requ…
Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality
Large and severe wildfires are an observable consequence of an increasingly arid American West. There is increasing consensus that human communities, land managers, and fire managers need to adapt and learn to live with wildfires. However, a myriad of human and ecological factors constrain adaptation, and existing science-based management strategies are not sufficient to address fire as both a problem and solution. To that end, we present a novel…
The emergence of network governance in U.S. National Forest Administration: Causal factors and propositions for future research
Between Environmental Change and Neoliberalism: The Effects of Oil Palm Production on Livelihood Resilience
Rural communities worldwide are increasingly confronted with the simultaneous impacts of environmental change dynamics and processes of economic restructuring that diminish traditional sources of state support while shifting investments toward large-scale intensive production models. A key question in this context is how livelihoods are affected by these interacting forces of change and whether new production models can contribute to resilience a…
Tracking a Governance Transition: Identifying and Measuring Indicators of Social Forestry on the Willamette National Forest
Jesse Abramsa*, Heidi Huber-Stearnsb, Hannah Gosnellc, Anna Santob, Stacie Duffeyd & Cassandra Moseleyba Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; b Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; c College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA; d Planning,…
Rangeland Fire Protection Associations as disaster response organisations
Rangeland Fire Protection Associations (RFPAs) are volunteer‐based groups of trained private landowners who are authorised to respond to events in partnership with governmental agencies. This study analysed the functioning and structure of RFPAs in Idaho and Oregon in the western United States to characterise this under‐researched model of disaster response. RFPAs represent an expanding type of disaster response organisation that interfaces with …
Amenity migration: Diverse Conceptualizations of Drivers, Socioeconomic Dimensions, and Emerging Challenges
Amenity Landownership, Land Use Change, and the Re-Creation of “Working Landscapes”
In recent years the “working landscape” concept has risen to prominence in popular, academic, and policy discourse surrounding conservation of both natural and cultural values in inhabited landscapes. Despite its implied reconciliation of commodity production and environmental protection, this concept remains contested terrain, masking tensions over land use practices and understandings of human–nature relations. Here we draw on a case study of l…
Family farming, agribusiness and the state: Building consent around oil palm expansion in post-neoliberal Brazil
The politics of marginality in Wallowa County, Oregon: Contesting the production of landscapes of consumption
Beyond localism: The micropolitics of local legitimacy in a community-based organization
Do rural youth want to stay rural? Influences on residential aspirations of youth in forest-located communities
Economic transitions have a wide variety of impacts on rural forest-located communities. Uncertain employment prospects and a lack of local higher education institutions may increase out-migration, while individual connections to the local natural environment and community itself may bind youth to their community of origin. We analyzed over 2,000 survey responses from middle and high school youth from traditionally forest-dependent communities in…
The emergence of network governance in U.S. National Forest Administration: Causal factors and propositions for future research
Developing Fire Adapted Communities: The Importance of Interactions Among Elements of Local Context
Resident perceptions and actions related to wildfire management are influenced by a complex set of factors that are often tied to a specific local context. We conducted in-depth case studies in two diverse communities to better illustrate how elements of local social context collectively influence wildfire perspectives and behaviors in a given locality. Our results suggest that the influence of commonly cited predictors for wildfire mitigation ac…
Tracking a Governance Transition: Identifying and Measuring Indicators of Social Forestry on the Willamette National Forest
Jesse Abramsa*, Heidi Huber-Stearnsb, Hannah Gosnellc, Anna Santob, Stacie Duffeyd & Cassandra Moseleyba Warnell School of Forestry and Natural Resources, Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, USA; b Ecosystem Workforce Program, Institute for a Sustainable Environment, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, USA; c College of Earth, Ocean, and Atmospheric Sciences, Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USA; d Planning,…
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Fuelling Social Inclusion? Neo-extractivism, State-Society Relations and Biofuel Policies in Latin America's Southern Cone
Scholarship on neo-extractivism agrees that this 'post-neoliberal' model of development is founded on an inherent contradiction between the commitment to continue natural resource extraction and the need to legitimize these activities by using their revenues for poverty reduction. Using the cases of the national biofuel policies of the 'post-neoliberal' governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, this article enquires why and how these policies…
Community-Based Organizations and Institutional Work in the Remote Rural West
The institutional landscape for public land management in the U.S. West underwent a seismic shift in the 1990s as the long-dominant resource extraction paradigm was replaced by the ecosystem management paradigm. Here we analyze the efforts of community-based organizations (CBOs), entities that emerged in some locations across the West to help their respective communities navigate the transition from resource extraction to environmental stewardshi…
Adaptation to a landscape-scale mountain pine beetle epidemic in the era of networked governance: The Enduring Importance of Bureaucratic Institutions
Abrams, J. B., H. R. Huber-Stearns, C. Bone, C. A. Grummon, and C. Moseley. 2017. Adaptation to a landscape-scale mountain pine beetle epidemic in the era of networked governance: the enduring importance of bureaucratic institutions. Ecology and Society 22(4):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09717-220422
Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon
Informal Land Tenure and Livelihood Resilience in the Chaco Salteño, Argentina
Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: Cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina
Selfa, T., V. Marini, and J. B. Abrams. 2021. Place attachment and perceptions of land-use change: cultural ecosystem services impacts of eucalyptus plantation expansion in Ubajay, Entre Ríos, Argentina. Ecology and Society 26(4):44. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-12870-260444
Does policy respond to environmental change events? An analysis of Mountain Pine Beetle outbreaks in the Western United States
Navigating social forestry – A street-level perspective on National Forest management in the US Pacific Northwest
Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Abrams, J. B., M. Knapp, T. B. Paveglio, A. Ellison, C. Moseley, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and M. C. Carroll. 2015. Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 20(3):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07848-200334
Adaptive governance in a complex social-ecological context: Emergent responses to a native forest insect outbreak
Local-level emergence of network governance within the U.S. Forest Service: A case study of mountain pine beetle outbreak from Colorado, USA
State lines, fire lines, and lines of authority: Rangeland fire management and bottom-up cooperative federalism
Does policy matter? The role of policy systems in forest bioenergy development in the United States
Desarrollo sustentable y regenerativo de los paisajes socioecológicos de montaña: Montología del Chimborazo como referente insigne del cambio global
Analizamos el predicamento del desarrollo sustentable y regenerativo enmarcado en la experiencia globalizante del cambio global, con la gran aceleración de las últimas décadas. Con el fin de plantear opciones prácticas de adaptación al cambio climático y de incrementar la resiliencia, se presenta el caso del Chimborazo como referente global para incorporar la transdisciplinariedad de la montología, presentada como la ciencia convergente de las mo…
Between Environmental Change and Neoliberalism: The Effects of Oil Palm Production on Livelihood Resilience
Rural communities worldwide are increasingly confronted with the simultaneous impacts of environmental change dynamics and processes of economic restructuring that diminish traditional sources of state support while shifting investments toward large-scale intensive production models. A key question in this context is how livelihoods are affected by these interacting forces of change and whether new production models can contribute to resilience a…
News and Short Contributions
Instream Flows and “Angler Habitat: ” Flow Effects on Fishability on Eight Pacific Northwest Rivers
Instream flow affects biophysical habitat for aquatic species and “angler habitat” or “fishability.” Previous work speculates about flows that provide fishability, but without detailed information or analyses. This article presents anglers' normative flow evaluations for fishability on segments of eight Pacific Northwest rivers. Results show varying evaluations across rivers, with optimal fishing flows ranging from 5 to 118% of mean annual flow, …
Living among Frequent-fire Forests: Human History and Cultural Perspectives
Murphy, A., J. Abrams, T. Daniel, and V. Yazzie. 2007. Living among frequent-fire forests: human history and cultural perspectives. Ecology and Society 12(2): 17. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-02167-120217
Amenity migration: Diverse Conceptualizations of Drivers, Socioeconomic Dimensions, and Emerging Challenges
The politics of marginality in Wallowa County, Oregon: Contesting the production of landscapes of consumption
Re-creating the Rural, Reconstructing Nature: An International Literature Review of the Environmental Implications of Amenity Migration
The term 'amenity migration' describes a broad diversity of patterns of human movement to rural places in search of particular lifestyle attributes. This review of international literature, drawn from the authors' own prior research and searches on relevant databases, synthesises findings on the implications of amenity migration for the creation and distribution of environmental harms and benefits. Further, we critique common framings of amenity …
Amenity Landownership, Land Use Change, and the Re-Creation of “Working Landscapes”
In recent years the “working landscape” concept has risen to prominence in popular, academic, and policy discourse surrounding conservation of both natural and cultural values in inhabited landscapes. Despite its implied reconciliation of commodity production and environmental protection, this concept remains contested terrain, masking tensions over land use practices and understandings of human–nature relations. Here we draw on a case study of l…
Planning Paradise: Politics and Visioning of Land Use in Oregon
Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance
Abrams, J. B., M. Knapp, T. B. Paveglio, A. Ellison, C. Moseley, M. Nielsen-Pincus, and M. C. Carroll. 2015. Re-envisioning community-wildfire relations in the U.S. West as adaptive governance. Ecology and Society 20(3):34. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-07848-200334
Community-Based Organizations and Institutional Work in the Remote Rural West
The institutional landscape for public land management in the U.S. West underwent a seismic shift in the 1990s as the long-dominant resource extraction paradigm was replaced by the ecosystem management paradigm. Here we analyze the efforts of community-based organizations (CBOs), entities that emerged in some locations across the West to help their respective communities navigate the transition from resource extraction to environmental stewardshi…
Does policy matter? The role of policy systems in forest bioenergy development in the United States
Developing Fire Adapted Communities: The Importance of Interactions Among Elements of Local Context
Resident perceptions and actions related to wildfire management are influenced by a complex set of factors that are often tied to a specific local context. We conducted in-depth case studies in two diverse communities to better illustrate how elements of local social context collectively influence wildfire perspectives and behaviors in a given locality. Our results suggest that the influence of commonly cited predictors for wildfire mitigation ac…
Rangeland Fire Protection Associations in Great Basin Rangelands: A Model for Adaptive Community Relationships with Wildfire
Beyond localism: The micropolitics of local legitimacy in a community-based organization
Family farming, agribusiness and the state: Building consent around oil palm expansion in post-neoliberal Brazil
Adaptation to a landscape-scale mountain pine beetle epidemic in the era of networked governance: The Enduring Importance of Bureaucratic Institutions
Abrams, J. B., H. R. Huber-Stearns, C. Bone, C. A. Grummon, and C. Moseley. 2017. Adaptation to a landscape-scale mountain pine beetle epidemic in the era of networked governance: the enduring importance of bureaucratic institutions. Ecology and Society 22(4):22. https://doi.org/10.5751/ES-09717-220422
Community perceptions of socioecological stressors and risk-reducing strategies in Tabasco, Mexico
How Do States Benefit from Nonstate Governance? Evidence from Forest Sustainability Certification
Forest sustainability certification is emblematic of governance mechanisms associated with neoliberal state reforms. Despite being conceived as a means of compensating for the unwillingness or inability of states to regulate forest practices, in practice, forest certification has come to entail complex and hybrid relationships between private-sector, civil society, and government actors. Indeed, states have increasingly embraced certification as …
Does policy respond to environmental change events? An analysis of Mountain Pine Beetle outbreaks in the Western United States
State lines, fire lines, and lines of authority: Rangeland fire management and bottom-up cooperative federalism
Navigating social forestry – A street-level perspective on National Forest management in the US Pacific Northwest
Fuelling Social Inclusion? Neo-extractivism, State-Society Relations and Biofuel Policies in Latin America's Southern Cone
Scholarship on neo-extractivism agrees that this 'post-neoliberal' model of development is founded on an inherent contradiction between the commitment to continue natural resource extraction and the need to legitimize these activities by using their revenues for poverty reduction. Using the cases of the national biofuel policies of the 'post-neoliberal' governments of Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay, this article enquires why and how these policies…
A land systems science approach to assessing forest governance and characterizing the emergence of social forestry in the Western Cascades of Oregon
National forests in the United States are undergoing a spatially and temporally uneven governance transition in response to Congressional policies, agency mandates, and social and economic pressures, with many moving from a wholly state-led ‘dominant federal’ model to a more collaborative networked governance model which we refer to as ‘social forestry’. While the broad contours of this transition have been observed and studied previously, there …
The American West as a social-ecological region: Drivers, dynamics and implications for nested social-ecological systems
The American West exists in the popular imagination as a distinct region, and policies and politics often suggest that both the challenges and the opportunities for land management and human well-being across the region are relatively homogeneous. In this paper, we argue that there are key characteristics that define the West as a social-ecological region, and also that there are myriad social-ecological systems (SESs) within the region that requ…
Wildfire risk science facilitates adaptation of fire-prone social-ecological systems to the new fire reality
Large and severe wildfires are an observable consequence of an increasingly arid American West. There is increasing consensus that human communities, land managers, and fire managers need to adapt and learn to live with wildfires. However, a myriad of human and ecological factors constrain adaptation, and existing science-based management strategies are not sufficient to address fire as both a problem and solution. To that end, we present a novel…
Geography (37 works) · Political science (29 works) · Environmental resource management (26 works) · Ecology (24 works) · Economics (23 works) · Business (22 works) · Environmental planning (18 works) · Forest Management and Policy (18 works) · Politics (16 works) · Corporate governance (15 works)